Man Out: Men on the Sidelines of American Life, Hardcover - Andrew L. Yarrow

DescriptionThe story of men who are hurting--and hurting America by their absenceMan Out describes the millions of men on the sidelines of life in ...

Reducere. Andrew L. Yarrow tells the story of Look magazine, one of the greatest mass-circulation publications in American history, and the very different Un...

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In Saving Sight, Dr. Andrew Lam explains the intricacies of human sight and shines a light on the heroes who fought to save it, while also revealin...

In her day, Eva Tanguay (1879-1947) was one of the most famous women in America. Widely known as the I Don't Care Girl--named after a song she popu...

Reducere. Description"And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them." - Exodus 25: 8How was God's house created? At Mount Sinai, God gave Isr...

An anthology of true stories, edited by Paul Auster and chosen from 4, 000 entries sent in to his programme on National Public Radio, which come to...

Reducere. Unpublished documents reveal an Andrew Jackson who committed mutiny and shed tears as he thought his mistakes would lead to the deaths of teenage s...

During much of his early career, from 1944 through to the early 1960s, Richard Hardy took hundreds of pictures of life on the railways and the men ...

★ Publishers Weekly starred review. Affluence, autonomy, safety, and power. These are the central values of the American dream. But are they compat...

Reducere. In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fasci...

Reducere. A revelatory biography of the first Black woman to stand for Vice President, charting how the daughter of two immigrants in segregated California b...

The race to the moon was won spectacularly by Apollo 11 on 20 July 1969. This title presents an account of the heroic Apollo programme - from the t...

The fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landings provides perspective for this definitive account of the 'giant step'. Foreword from Tom Hanks.

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Nolan Lennox had things figured out. Named after a baseball legend, she enjoyed being the Tomboy, her closet filled with her brother's hand-me-down...

DescriptionThe American Provisional Tank Group had been in the Philippines only three weeks when the Japanese attacked the islands hours after the ...

Reducere. DescriptionEscaping the Horoch w ghetto was just the beginning for twelve-year-old Musia Perlmutter. Alone, starving, freezing at times, and runnin...

DescriptionThe must-have photography monograph of the year, this lavish oversized volume celebrates David Yarrow's unparalleled wildlife imagery. F...

Reducere. *[An] excellent exercise in narrative nonfiction. --Booklist (starred review) From New York Times bestselling author Andrew Maraniss comes the rema...

Reducere. Andrew Sullivan--youngest ever editor of The New Republic, founding editor of The Daily Dish, hailed as "one of the most influential journalists of...

Reducere. DescriptionAs the Son of a Dog Man ... I Became a Hog Hunter is a true to life historical fiction account of the challenging sport of Wild Boar Hun...

Reducere. God's Free-Man is a historical presentation guided by God that delineates the capture of Harry and Kate Freeman, who were the co-founders of the ci...

Unpicking the ever-changing myth of the West in photography, from the 19th century to nowPublished for an exhibition at the Figge Art Museum in Dav...

Reducere. DescriptionSt. Anthony of Padua has been a friend to millions of Catholics asking his help to recover lost objects. But few seem to know much about...

Reducere. Where do our pets go when they leave us? Is there a heaven for pets? I Smell Heaven by Susan Trott, award-winning advertising executive, offers poe...

Reducere. First published in 1886, and presented here for the first time in an English translation, The Desperate Man is arguably L on Bloy's masterpiece, an...

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Reducere. Cultural Writing. Asian American Studies. In his long-overdue first collection of essays, noted journalist and NPR commentator Andrew Lam explores ...

Reducere. From Slave Ship to Harvard is the true story of an African American family in Maryland over six generations. The author has reconstructed a unique ...

Reducere. Johnny Cash is one of the most influential figures in music and American popular culture today. While he was an icon to people of all ages during h...